| Description | (Dated at Temple House. Marked No. 7.) [From a conversation I had with the President of the Board of Trade, I believe the export of copper to places within the limits of Europe will not be allowed in future: this is in order to keep the price down. I want to erect at our mills here a machine for cutting out copper rings used by the Navy for clenching the copper bolts. It is now done by a press worked by four men. As the operation is precisely that by which you cut your blanks, I should be obliged if you would put me in the way of accomplishing it.] |